Memorable Quotes About Powerful Women

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"I am a woman with thoughts and questions and sh*t to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story – I will."
Amy Schumer
"I don't flirt and I don't play the people who flirt with me. I will fire them sooner than I'll give them a sympathy f**k."
Megan Fox
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Jane Goodall
"You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman."
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
"I won't be held back by fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to rise."
Mary Anne Radmacher
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
Rosa Parks
"Power is not given to you. You have to take it."
Beyonce
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"I am not a shrinking violet who needs a man to protect her."
Ellen DeGeneres
"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
Coco Chanel
"A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink."
Gina Carey
"The fiercest calms are born in the greatest storms."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
Maya Angelou
"A strong woman is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely."
Ritu Ghatourey
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."
Oprah Winfrey
"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a b*tch, okay."
Madonna
"Well behaved women seldom make history."
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a b****, okay."
Madonna
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
Anaïs Nin
"I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human."
Sylvia Plath
"The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world."
Arlene Rankin
"I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men---insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea---have become dangerous to children, to animals, to the earth itself. We can no longer afford to make a politics founded on the self- aggrandizement of the male of the species."
Adrienne Rich
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"Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women."
Maya Angelou
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a b****. You've got to go out and kick a**."
Maya Angelou
"Why do people say 'grow some balls'? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you really want to get tough, grow a v****a. Those things can take a pounding."
Betty White
"We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead."
Beyoncé
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
Jane Austen
"The most important thing one woman can do for another is expand her sense of actual possibilities."
Adrienne Rich
"What's the worst that could happen? Everyone is treating you as a fool. But the whole world is full of fools."
Tracy Chevalier
"Gender equality is your issue too."
Emma Watson
"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
Kim Basinger
"One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go."
Sheila Murray Bethel
"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
Abraham Lincoln
"I am my own woman."
Evita Perón
"No one changes the world who isn't obsessed."
Billie Jean King
"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
Ayn Rand
"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."
Malala Yousafzai
"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else."
Unknown
"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations."
Dr. Mae Jemison
"The question isn't can you, it's will you?"
Barbara Smith
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."
Audre Lorde
"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."
Malala Yousafzai
"Every woman's success should be an inspiration to another. We're strongest when we cheer each other on."
Serena Williams
"You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman."
Tyra Banks
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."
Amelia Earhart
"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
Katharine Hepburn
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail."
Oprah Winfrey
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
Susan B. Anthony
"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."
Jennifer Lopez
"Successful women are not liked. They are criticized."
Meryl Streep
"I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried."
Amelia Earhart
"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture, and transform."
Diane Mariechild
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
Audre Lorde
"The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me."
Ayn Rand
"A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection."
Nancy Rathburn
"You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman."
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
"I raise up my voice — not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard."
Malala Yousafzai
"The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race."
Susan B. Anthony
"A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman."
Melinda Gates
"The question about whether a woman has what it takes to lead has been answered. It’s been answered a thousand times over and with a resounding YES."
Viola Davis
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
Alice Walker
"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."
Gloria Steinem
"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish."
Michelle Obama
"Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength."
G.D. Anderson
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The most effective way to do it is to do it."
Amelia Earhart
"Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength."
Dolores Huerta
"The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will."
Amy Tenney
"A woman is like a tea bag—you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up."
Jenette Stanley
"The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description."
Steve Maraboli
"Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes.’ They have standards."
Susanna M. Salter
"The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
Ayn Rand
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
Oprah Winfrey
"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."
Vera Wang
"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely."
Simone de Beauvoir
"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."
Ruth Gordon
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
Coco Chanel
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
Mother Teresa
"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."
Roseanne Barr
"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."
Marge Piercy
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
Mother Teresa
"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."
Madeleine Albright
"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."
Coco Chanel
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
"The question isn't whether you're a feminist, but what type of feminist you are."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
Maya Angelou
"Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world."
Hillary Clinton
"The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world."
Charles Malik
"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."
Gilda Radner
"The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board."
D.M. Timney
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
Coco Chanel
"I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself."
Emma Stone
"Women hold up half the sky."
Mao Zedong
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